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escapist

noun as in dreamer

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All of TheSoul’s brands stick to light and positive content, according to Potrel, which helped provide an escapist outlet during the doom and gloom of 2020.

From Digiday

Look for more of this kind of escapist programming—from high art to treacle, feeling good will be the new Breaking Bad.

From Time

In this context, “Dynamite,” which I had my reservations about, feels like the perfect exclamation point when it closes out Be — a fun, vibrant future fantasy whose lyrical nonsense becomes part of the album’s determinedly escapist milieu.

From Vox

While zoo livestreams have gained popularity as calming, escapist windows of cuteness, there are higher stakes here.

Their group lives in a constant limbo that would challenge any Outside reader’s escapist dreams.

And that makes for a meandering, challenging, non-escapist viewing.

Thus his love of escapist, desperately lighthearted writers like Laurence Sterne and Miguel de Cervantes.

Perabo says it's because female viewers want an escapist fantasy when they're working hard balancing families and careers.

And the theatrical world is picking up on that and again making escapist fare for the summer audience.

Shannon Donnelly on the genre's surprising comeback and why viewers are flocking to escapist fare.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to escapist, such as: idealist, romanticist, and evader.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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